The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...

IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...

IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

Magnus Lindberg, with a world premiere on this evening’s program, has continually developed his relationship with IRCAM and the Ensemble intercontemporain since his Parisian stays in the 1980s. This same type of companionship concerns the two 40-something composers on this evening’s program: Franck Bedrossian and Roque Rivas. Chilean composer living in Paris, Roque Rivas was discovered through the Cursus program at IRCAM with his work Mutations of Matter created with a visual artist from the Fresnoy. An adept of architecture, in Campo abierto sets sounds in space using the model of visual perspective, imagining vanishing points and movements that move away from, or closer to, the listener. Franck Bedrossian—a Parisian living in Berkeley, California—refers to the final words of Arthur Rimbaud’s Vagabonds in which he bitterly evokes certain “brutal vigils” with Verlaine. The score follows the poet’s journeys in Europe and Ethiopia “bound to find the place itself and the code”.

ROQUE RIVAS CAMPO ABIERTO, assistance for the writing of an original musical work from the French Ministry of Culture, Premiere 2019FRANCK BEDROSSIAN LE LIEU ET LA FORMULE, assistance for the writing of an original musical work from the French Ministry of Culture, commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain, Premiere 2019BENOÎT SITZIA ECHO-MANIFESTE, commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain, Premiere 2019MAGNUS LINDBERG new work, commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain, with the support of the Fondation Meyer, Premiere 2019